3rd Mountain Division

The 3rd Mountain Division was a German Wehrmacht division that was active from 1 April 1938 to 8 May 1945 during World War II. It was created from two former Austrian army divisions following the Anschluss of 1938, and it took part in the invasion of Poland in 1939 as a part of Army Group South and in the invasion of Norway, distinguishing itself at the Battle of Narvik. In 1941, the division was sent to take part in Operation Barbarossa, failing to capture Murmansk in the north of Russia. In 1942, the division returned to Norway, and it later served as a reserve for Army Group North during the Siege of Leningrad. After November 1942, it fought the remainder of the war in the south, fighting in Ukraine, Hungary, Slovakia, and in Silesia, where it surrendered to the Red Army at the end of the war.